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The International Building Exhibitions (IBA) has been an instrument of urban development in Germany for over 100 years. Since 2000, IBA has worked to restructure the former coal-mining region of Lusatia, also known as Furst-Puckler-Land, located between Berlin and Dresden. This publication presents 30 projects proposing structural change in the region and elucidates the working methods and philosophy of this extraordinary undertaking.

Edited by Jochen Visscher. Photographs by Bodo Tuengler. Text by Alejandro G. Alonso.

The Northeastern African nation of Eritrea spent much of the early 20th century as a colony of Italy, and more recently shook off another invader, Ethiopia. Its capital city, which dates back more than 700 years, exploded into life and growth with the arrival of Italian colonists in the 1930s, and then stagnated under Ethiopian rule. The surprising result is a living museum of Italian -Nuova Architettura, - where decorative smokestacks tower over street markets and portholes look out onto bicycle traffic. Futuristic, monumentalist, rationalist and cubist work is not just preserved, but...